Bartholomew-Wayne-Harrison County IN Archives Biographies..... FLORA, Daniel Rice Boon October 5, 1838 - September 16, 1908
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DANIEL RICE BOON FLORA A KANSAS & COLORADO PIONEER
Amanda G Lentz (1810PA-1862IN) & the Reverend John FLORA (1800GER-1876IN)
started their family in Harrison County, Indiana. Results were seven known children
born; Josephine F, (1833IN-1915KS), Volney Pulaski, (1834IN-1909KS), Sarah
Catharine, (1836IN-1877KS), Daniel Rice Boon, (1838IN-1908CO). Margaret Ann,
(1841IN-1926MO), Maryetta Isebell (1843IN-184xIN) (assumed BEF 1850), and lastly
John Andrew (1845IN-1934KS).
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DANIEL RICE BOON FLORA (1838IN-1908CO) Five foot seven inch, blue eyed Daniel was
born Friday, 5 October 1838 in New Market (Mauckport after 1847) Harrison county,
Indiana, to John and Amanda FLORA, Daniel moved to Kansas, we think in 1862 with
brother John Andrew, to brother V P's farm in then Lyon county. Daniel fought in
Civil War February 1864 to September 1865, on Army leave with brother John found in
brother V P's household, July 1865 state census. He is noted traveling in Lyon
county 1866 & '67 and July 1868, with Captain Jacob Hendrix Conrad
and
brother Henry W Conrad (Note: Came to Kansas in 1868. He was one of the first four
settlers of Montgomery county, Kansas. Source material: HANBOOK(sic) OF THE KANSAS
LEGISLATURE, 1901. Topeka, Kan. : Crane & Co,1900.)
on Osage
Indian Ceded Land, Cutler's 1883 "History of Kansas" & Blackmar's 1912 book;
,
also, 27
December 1868, Daniel returns to Fremont Township, Lyon county to marry MARY
HOLLINGSWORTH (1851IN-1936CO), younger sister of brother Wolney's wife Ellinor,
fourth of William and Martha Hollingsworth's ten known children, Their first home is
next to brother John Andrew FLORA & Henry W Conard in Wilson county, Verdigris City
was created on Conrad's farm and was first county seat named by governor James
Madison Harvey for Montgomery county 3 June 1869. Post Office at Montgomery City
where Drum creek empties into Verdigris River, near Brown's Ford. 1875, Daniel
ventured to Lake City, Colorado Territory,
. They had four children, two each sex, one
each surviving to adulthood, girls born in Kansas, boys in Colorado. Daniel and wife
Mary died in Ouray county, Colorado,
he 16 September 1908, Mary, the 7th of February1936.
We found Daniel Rice Boon in 1840, 1850, NOT in 1860, in, 1865, 1870, 1875, 1880
and 1900 census. A questionable Bartholomew county, Indiana September 1862 document,
places him, August 1862, at age 23, with John A at 17 and father John at 62, in 6th
Regiment Indiana Infantry Volunteers. National Archives list's only father John in
the 6th.
Military records list Leavenworth county(?) his home when enlisting, BUT --- I
believe Daniel R B and John A removed to Kansas, spring 1862 (Cutler wrote of John;
"On April 9, 1862, he emigrated to Kansas."(?)). There is no accounting for him
between Bartholomew county's September 1862 questionable document and 20 February
1864 joining of Company C, 7th Regiment Kansas Cavalry "Veterans" Volunteers with 18
y/o William (Buffalo Bill) Cody (1846IA-1917CO) in Company H. To St Louis aboard
river boat "Isabelle" where a delay for lack of horses and arms occurred. October
1864, engaged same time as both brothers in Linn county, Kansas, defeating General
Sterling Price. where five future governors battled plus twice past-governor Price.
Daniel served faithfully until his honorable discharge at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
29September1865.
.
Verdigris township's eastern boundary adjusted east in1870, --- becoming Liberty
township, January1871. "New" Liberty moved east to 1858, the Leavenworth, Lawrence &
Fort Gibson RR, after its built1871, after 1880, the Kansas City, Lawrence &
Southern RR then 1882, Atchinson, Topeka & Santa Fe RR.
Afore noted historical articles places D R B FLORA, Henry W Conrad, Jacob Hendrix
Conrad, R W Dunlap, plus few others, in Wilson (became Montgomery 3 June1869) county
in 1868, and ninth Federal Census of 1870 for Verdigris township, Montgomery county
listing he and wife Mary next door to John Andrew FLORA's household, with brother
Wolney daughter's future husband, Henry Wilford Conrad, Indiana born - attended
Hartsville University, living next to John. I suggest the brothers came to Verdigris
valley with other Indiana born German pioneers, such as the Conrads, staking land
claims following government opening it for development in1867/8.
Documented is; 130 Kansas settlers slaughtered by Indians in1867, and 1868 prairie
fire lighted the night sky such that one could read a book, a mile away plus a
devastating Grasshopper (Rocky Mountain Locust) infestation of 1874 before moving to
Colorado Territory's newly discovered silver and gold deposits. Area remained Osage
Territory Ceded Lands until 1870, with Verdigris River, the lowest elevation found
within Kansas at 680 feet above sea level, flowing into the Arkansas River near Fort
Gibson, Indian Territory (Muskogee, Oklahoma). The Ingall family of "The Little
House On The Prairie" fame also moved into the area just west of FLORA's, with
little Carrie being born Aug1870,
year following his
niece Harriette Amanda FLORA's birth, said to be the first white child born in area.
Captain Jacob Hendrix Conrad, John's neighbor from Indiana of "Prairie Valley
Farm", also attended Hartsville University, 1856, and had, between 1859 & 1863, been
engaged in mining at Nevada which may have inspired Daniel's Colorado move.
Daniel had written in his pension records he moved to Lake City, Colorado
Territory in 1875. The territory of Colorado, with is seventeen counties, was formed
in 1861. Lake City, Hinsdale county, Colorado Territory where gold and silver had
been discovered was formed
in1874, from Conejos, Costilla and Lake Counties. Lake City's elevation is 8,671, 1
1/2 miles higher than Verdigris River in Montgomery, county with five mountains over
14,000, town formed when a road crew discovered gold nearby
. State of Colorado was created 1 August 1876
under President Grant as our 38th state.
1880 census has Daniel at George Spahr's, boarding, as a "freighter" in Ruby
City, Gunnison county, Colorado (cross-country U S Highway #50 runs through Gunnison
county) while wife Mary is
found with parents in Fremont township, Lyon county, Kansas with 2nd daughter Hettie
Amanda (Hester) born October 1877 and son Richard W age 1, born January 1879,
daughter Dora died Sept 1877, buried there. Daniel applied for veteran's invalid
pension in1880. He once lived at Rose's Cabin, near Engineers Pass, just southwest
of Capitol City, Hinsdale county, it, nine miles west of Lake City (both now ghost
towns) .
He wrote he moved to and remained in Ouray, county, in 1882, created from
Hinsdale & San Juan counties. first county created by State of Colorado, named
Uncompahgre, --- the Ute word for warm, flowing water, renamed Ouray on 2 March
1883. Today, 123-years later, Ouray
is still surrounded by peaks up to 5,000 feet higher than town, is also blessed with
sulphur-free hot springs. One visit and you'll see why Ouray is often called "the
Switzerland of America." Town is surrounded by the San Juan Mountains and the
Uncompaghre National Forest. The Alpine Loop makes its way into the east side of
town from Lake City and
Silverton.,
.
Daniel & Mary had four known children. Two of each sex with two surviving to
adulthood.
1)- Dora, born 18 November 1873, Montgomery county, Kansas, died 25 September 1877,
buried Maple Wood cemetery with grandparents Wm Hollingsworth's at Emporia, Kansas,
2)- Hettie Amanda 'Hester' born a month after Dora's death, October 1877, most
likely at maternal grandparents home, Lyon county, Kansas.
3)- Richard W, born 6 January 1879 in Colorado, died 25 January 1890 buried w/
family at Cedar Hill cemetery, Ouray
4)- Harrison 'Harry' Boone, born 3 February 1888, died 29 July 1977, married Alma M
(?Ingo) born 1891, died 27 October 1980, both buried Cedar Hill cemetery, Ouray, he
the last of the "Third Generation of FLORA".
Also buried is a Wina G (Brownyard) FLORA, (1881-1898CO), died 7 July 1898 with 12
day old son surviving, said to be wife of Harry. A complete mystery with given
information. (1908 would fit!)
Daughter Hester (Hettie Amanda), born a month after sister Dora died, married 18
November 1900 to James Lindsey Tillman, born November 1871 in Kansas, 1st lived with
her parents, then in 1910 census, with children, Sarah E, 9 y/o, Boyd A, 6 y/o and
Arthur D, 2 y/o, living next door to younger brother Harry, listed "farmer/general
farm", single and housing their 60 y/o mother, Mary Hollingsworth FLORA.She died
before 1920.
Daniel Rice Boon FLORA died Wednesday, 16 September 1908, wife Mary then applied
for veteran's widow penson benefits in 1909.
Harry lived with his mother in 1900, 1910, 1920 & 1930 census. He registered for
the draft in 1917 in Ouray county, Colorado. 1920 they are found in San Diego, San
Diego county, California. She may have married a man by name Dowler for a son
William born 1904 in California is listed as her son in the 1920 census, could be a
step-son(?). Mary H died Friday, 7 February 1936 in Ouray county, Colorado while
living with son Harrison "Harry" Boone FLORA, his letter head showed he had M C
Witherspoon's Jewlery business at that time.
All are listed buried, plus Mary's oldest sister, "Elleanor" Hollingsworth FLORA,
wife of Daniel's oldest brother, V P Flora, at Cedar Hill cemetery (aka: Ouray
cemetery), five miles northwest of Ouray near U S #550, nearer to where Portland
once existed.
Ellinor's granddaughter, Anna Stasha Borie and husband Jerome Emil MILLY were
later buried in Cedar Hill cemetery.
Daniel's g,g,nephew, Jim Duggan wrote:
(7/28/05): "I meet and visited with Harrison "Harry" Boon FLORA and his lovely wife
Alma Ingo in the 1960's while he was living in Ouray, Colorado. They showed me the
family haunts in Montrose-Ouray area."
(1/15/06): "Red Mountain City was shown to me in 1960's by Harry Flora. It is a
ghost town (pile of boards) on top of the hill alongside the road from Ouray to
Durango, Colorado. Not even a wild burro in sight."
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